LAVRINENKO Vladimir Dmitrievich

(17.V.1919, der. Ptahino Pochinkovskogo district of Smolensk region. - 14.I.1988, Kiev)
In the Red Army since 1940. He graduated from the Military Aviation School (1941). He took an active part in the Great Patriotic War. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1943.1944 g.). Fighter pilot. Flight commander, deputy commander of Squadron 9 th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Squadron. August 24, 1943, Mr.. rammed an enemy plane and then jumped with a parachute. Unconscious captured. Escaped, fought as a partisan of. Chapaeva, then returned to his regiment. In the postwar years, he graduated from the Military Academy. M.V. Frunze (1948), the Military Academy of the General Staff (1954). He served in the Army Air Defense. In 1977-84 he. - Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Civil Defense of the Ukrainian SSR, then the military adviser of the Kiev military school defense (1984-88 gg.). Colonel-General Aviation. Bronze bust of Mr.. Fixing. Honorary Citizen of Smolensk (1982), Repairing and Sevastopol.

Vol.: Return to the sky, 1974; Falcon-1, 1976; Without War, 1982.

Lit.: People of the immortal exploits. - 4 ed. - Kn. 1. - M., 1975; Bobrov NN. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lavrinenkov. - M., 1950; Belyaev I.N. Registered forever. - V. 1. - M., .1985.